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crum

Crumb \Crumb\ (kr[u^]m), n. [AS. cruma, akin to D. kruim, G. krume; cf. G. krauen to scratch, claw.] [Written also crum.]

  1. A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

    Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.
    --Luke xvi. 21.

  2. Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.

  3. The soft part of bread.

    Dust unto dust, what must be, must; If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust.
    --Old Song.

    Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table.

    To a crum, with great exactness; completely.

crum

Crumb \Crumb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crumbed (kr[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbing (kr[u^]m"[i^]ng).] To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [Written also crum.]

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crum

n. (obsolete form of crumb English)

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Crum

Crum may refer to:

Crum (surname)

Crum is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alison Crum (born 1949), English viol player
  • Bartley Crum (1900-1959), American lawyer
  • Denny Crum (born 1937), former American men's college basketball coach at the University of Louisville
  • Dick Crum (1928–2005), American folk dancer and teacher
  • Dick Crum (American football) (born 1934), former American football player and coach
  • Eugene Crum (1953–2013), American sheriff
  • George Crum (born George Speck; ca. 1828–1914), credited by many to be the inventor of potato chips
  • Johnny Crum (1912–1969), Scottish footballer
  • Maurice Crum (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Walter Ewing Crum (1865–1944), Coptologist

Usage examples of "crum".

Her father was the notorious Bill Crum, a half-Chinese, half-American rogue.

Connie Lon Crum had contrasted a French education with marriage to a senior Khmer Rouge officer, whom she had later killed in a fit of jealous rage.

It was said that Bill Crum could supply anything from a case of condoms to a brand new Abrams tank.

Bill Crum was an American citizen, and the US Justice Department started extradition proceedings.

It was then that Bill Crum applied pressure on certain very senior American generals, and I was hired to eliminate Bill Crum and all the proof.

In his own evil way, Bill Crum must have had loyalties and, for him, a kilo of gold was peanuts.

Bill Crum were alive, he would be the one to have baited the trap for you.

He composed himself and then looked up at the smiling face of Connie Crum across the table.

Italian silk suit, clutching the box, Connie Crum looked up at one of the girls and grinned like a cat that has just had a lobster put before it.

Piet de Witt watched as Connie Crum jumped out of the jeep and strode towards him.

I took that assignment to kill Bill Crum in Hong Kong, part of the job was to destroy any files in that converted temple at Sai Kung.

Bill Crum had him killed because he thought he was going to upset his organization.

He flicked through the pages and noted that in March 1977, William Crum had ceased to be a director and that Connie Lon Crum had been appointed to the board four years later.

Mr Crum died in 1977 and left his shares in the company to his daughter, Connie.

That file shows that Connie Crum is in command of the Khmer Rouge in the Cardamom mountains.